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...''[[Symposium]]''. He has been, in post-Renaissance times, a coded symbol of [[pederasty]]. <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcibiades_(character) ...s/Plutarch/Lives/Alcibiades*.html The Parallel Lives by Plutarch, The Life of Alcibiades p. 1 - 10]</ref> ...

{{History}} ...travels around the lands of the Mediterranean and Black Sea. Although some of his stories were not completely accurate, he claimed that he was reporting ...

...of love, and (in latter-day interpretations) is the origin of the concept of Platonic love. ...w light on life in ancient Athens, in particular upon sexual behavior, and the symposium as an institution. ...

...bosom of his family. Lastly, his death is simple, pathetic end edifying as the life which led to it. ...the sin and sorrow, the pathos and bathos of the world; and feel the pity of it, with its shifts and changes ending in nothingness, its scanty happiness ...